Chaos Daemons – Plague Drones
| No | NAME | M | WS | BS | S | T | W | A | Ld | Sv | Base |
35 Plague Drone (base: 60mm) |
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| 2‑8 | 35 Plague Drone |
10" | 4+ | 4+ | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 6+ | 60mm |
35 Plaguebringer (base: 60mm) |
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| 1 | 35 Plaguebringer |
10" | 4+ | 4+ | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 6+ | 60mm |
This unit contains 1 Plaguebringer and 2 Plague Drones. It can include up to 3 additional Plague Drones (Power Rating +5) or up to 6 additional Plague Drones (Power Rating +10). Each model is armed with death’s heads and a plaguesword, and rides a Rot Fly that attacks with its prehensile proboscis.
WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D | ABILITIES |
Rider | ||||||
| Death’s heads | ||||||
| Death’s heads | 12" | Assault 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | You can re-roll wound rolls of 1 for this weapon. |
| You can re-roll wound rolls of 1 for this weapon. | ||||||
| Plaguesword | ||||||
| Plaguesword | Melee | Melee | User | 0 | 1 | You can re-roll failed wound rolls for this weapon. |
| You can re-roll failed wound rolls for this weapon. | ||||||
Rot Fly | ||||||
| Rot Fly’s prehensile proboscis | ||||||
| Rot Fly’s prehensile proboscis | Melee | Melee | 4 | 0 | 2 | After a model riding a Rot Fly makes its close combat attacks, you can attack with its mount. Make 4 additional attacks, using this weapon profile. You can re-roll failed wound rolls for these attacks. |
| After a model riding a Rot Fly makes its close combat attacks, you can attack with its mount. Make 4 additional attacks, using this weapon profile. You can re-roll failed wound rolls for these attacks. | ||||||
WARGEAR OPTIONS | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS |
• One Plague Drone may take an Instrument of Chaos. • One Plague Drone may take a Daemonic Icon.
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ABILITIES | |
ABILITIES |
Daemonic, Disgustingly Resilient, Daemonic Ritual Daemonic Icon: +15 If you roll a 1 when taking a Morale test for a unit with any Daemonic Icons, reality blinks and the daemonic horde is bolstered. No models flee and 1 slain Plague Drone is instead added to the unit.Instrument of Chaos: +10 If this unit has an Instrument of Chaos, then when an Advance or charge roll is made for this unit, add 1 to the roll. |
| FACTION KEYWORDS: CHAOS, DAEMON, NURGLE | |
| KEYWORDS: CAVALRY, FLY, PLAGUEBEARER, PLAGUE DRONES | |
Datasheet-related Stratagems
1CP | ||
PUTRID DEMISE Nurgle Daemons Stratagem Nurgle’s favoured erupt in a putrid shower upon death. Use this Stratagem when a PLAGUEBEARER CAVALRY model from your army is destroyed. Before removing that model, roll one D6 for every unit within 6" (excluding NURGLE units). On a 2+, the unit being rolled for suffers 1 mortal wound. | ||
Select Weapon
When a model makes a close combat attack, it must do so using a melee weapon (i.e. a weapon that has the ‘Melee’ type). The weapons a model is equipped with are described on its datasheet. If a model is not equipped with any melee weapons, or if it cannot make an attack with any of the melee weapons it is equipped with, then that model makes its attacks using a close combat weapon, which has the following profile:
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If a model has more than one melee weapon, select which it will use before resolving any attacks. If a model has more than one melee weapon and can make several attacks, it can split them between these weapons however you wish – declare which attacks are being made with which weapons before any attacks are resolved. If the selected weapon has more than one profile that you must choose between, you must declare which profile is being used at the same time. Different attacks made with such a weapon can be made using different profiles if you wish.
If your unit is making attacks with more than one melee weapon against a unit, and those weapons have different characteristics profiles, then after you have resolved an attack with one of those weapons you must, if any other weapons with the same characteristics profile are also being used to make attacks against that unit, resolve those attacks before resolving any attacks against the target with a weapon that has a different characteristics profile. Note that all the attacks you have declared are always resolved against the target unit even if, when you come to resolve an individual attack, no models in the target unit remain in range (this can happen because of models being destroyed and removed from the battlefield as the result of resolving other attacks made by the attacking model’s unit first).
- Each close combat attack is made with a melee weapon.
- A model makes attacks using the close combat weapon profile if it has no other melee weapons.
- If a unit attacks with multiple weapons, all attacks made with weapons that have the same profile must be resolved before resolving attacks with the next.
Daemonic
The denizens of the warp do not have a true physical form; they are beings of energy, given fell shape and terrible purpose. Such a creature defies the natural laws of the universe, and many of the most powerful weapons are all but useless against them.
Units with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save.The CHAOS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The KHORNE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The TZEENTCH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
The CHARACTER and KHORNE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Lords of War
The KHORNE and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
Daemonic Ritual
Through dark pacts and blasphemous rituals, a champion of Chaos can weaken the fabric of reality to create a gateway to the warp. From this rent pour forth the Daemons of that realm, ready to rend and tear those who stand against the Ruinous Powers.
Instead of moving in their Movement phase, any CHAOS CHARACTER can, at the end of their Movement phase, attempt to summon a DAEMON unit with this ability by performing a Daemonic Ritual (the character cannot do so if they arrived as reinforcements this turn, or if they were themselves summoned to the battlefield this turn).If they do so, first choose one of the four Chaos Gods – KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH. A CHARACTER who owes allegiance to one of the Dark Gods can only attempt to summon the units of their patron – for example, a KHORNE CHARACTER could only attempt to summon KHORNE DAEMONS.
Roll up to 3 dice – this is your summoning roll. You can summon one new unit with the Daemonic Ritual ability to the battlefield that has a Power Rating equal to or less than the total result so long as it has the same Chaos God keyword you chose at the start (in the case of units that have a choice of allegiance, such as Furies, the unit when summoned will have this keyword). This unit is treated as reinforcements for your army and can be placed anywhere on the battlefield that is wholly within 12" of the character and more than 9" from any enemy model. If the total rolled is insufficient to summon any unit, the ritual fails and no new unit is summoned.
If your summoning roll included any doubles, your character then suffers a mortal wound. If it contained any triples, it instead suffers D3 mortal wounds.
Mortal Wounds
Some attacks inflict mortal wounds – these are so powerful that no armour or force field can withstand their fury. Each mortal wound inflicts 1 point of damage on the target unit, and they are always applied one at a time. Do not make a wound roll or saving throw (including invulnerable saves) against a mortal wound – just allocate it as you would any other attack and inflict damage to a model in the target unit. Unlike damage inflicted by normal attacks, excess damage from mortal wounds is not lost. Instead, keep allocating damage to another model in the target unit until either all the damage has been allocated or the target unit is destroyed.If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, resolve the normal damage first. If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, but the normal damage is subsequently saved, the target unit still suffers the mortal wounds, as described before. If an ability modifies the damage inflicted by a weapon, and that weapon can inflict mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, the modifier does not apply to any mortal wounds that are inflicted (unless the rule specifically states otherwise).
- Each mortal wound inflicted on a unit causes one model in the unit to lose one wound.
- No saving throws can be made against mortal wounds.
- Mortal wounds inflicted by attacks in addition to normal damage always apply, even if normal damage saved.
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Heavy Support
Engagement Range
Engagement Range represents the zone of threat that models present to their enemies. While a model is within 1" horizontally and 5" vertically of an enemy model, those models are within Engagement Range of each other. While two enemy models are within Engagement Range of each other, those models’ units are also within Engagement Range of each other. Models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of enemy models.- Engagement Range: 1" horizontally + 5" vertically.
- Models cannot be set up within Engagement Range of enemy models.
Wound Roll
Each time an attack scores a hit against a target unit, make a wound roll for that attack by rolling one D6 to see if that attack successfully wounds the target. The result required is determined by comparing the attacking weapon’s Strength (S) characteristic with the target’s Toughness (T) characteristic, as shown on the following table:
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If the result of the wound roll is less than the required number, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. An unmodified wound roll of 6 always successfully wounds the target, and an unmodified wound roll of 1 always fails. A wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
Army List
Datasheets collatedHeavy Support
Fortifications
The CAVALRY keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The FLY keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Heavy Support
Morale Tests
To take a Morale test, roll one D6 and add the number of models from the unit that have been destroyed this turn. If the result is equal to or less than the highest Leadership (Ld) characteristic in the unit, the Morale test is passed and nothing else happens. An unmodified roll of 1 also always results in a passed Morale test, irrespective of the total result. In any other case, the Morale test is failed, one model flees that unit, and you must then take Combat Attrition tests for the remaining models in the unit. You decide which model from your unit flees – that model is removed from play and counts as having been destroyed, but it never triggers any rules that are used when a model is destroyed.- Morale test = D6 + number of models destroyed this turn.
- Unmodified roll of 1 always a success (no models flee).
- If Morale test exceeds unit’s Ld, one model flees and other models must take Combat Attrition tests.
ASSAULT
Assault weapons fire so rapidly or indiscriminately that they can be shot from the hip as warriors dash forwards into combat.If a unit includes any models equipped with Assault weapons, that unit is still eligible to shoot with in your Shooting phase even if it has Advanced this turn, but you can only resolve attacks using those Assault weapons when you select that unit to shoot with. If a model shoots an Assault weapon in the same turn in which its unit has Advanced, subtract 1 from hit rolls when resolving that weapon’s attacks.
- Can be shot even if firing model’s unit Advanced.
- Subtract 1 from hit rolls if the firing model’s unit Advanced.
Advance
When a unit makes an Advance, make an Advance roll for the unit by rolling one D6. Add the result in inches to the Move (M) characteristic of each model in that unit until the end of the current phase. Each model in that unit can then move a distance in inches equal to or less than this total, but no model can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy models. A unit cannot shoot or declare a charge in the same turn that it made an Advance.- Advance: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
Charging with a Unit
Once you have chosen an eligible unit to declare a charge with, you must select one or more enemy units within 12" of it as the targets of its charge. The target(s) of this charge do not need to be visible to the charging unit. You then make a charge roll for your unit by rolling 2D6. This is the maximum number of inches each model in the charging unit can now be moved if they can make the charge move. To make a charge move, the unit’s charge roll must be sufficient that it is able to end that move in unit coherency and within Engagement Range of every unit that was a target of its charge, without moving within Engagement Range of any enemy units that were not a target of its charge. If this is possible, then the charge is successful and the models in the unit make a charge move so as to fulfil the above conditions. If this is impossible, the charge fails and no models in the charging unit move this phase.- Declare targets of the charge (must be within 12").
- Charge roll = 2D6".
- If insufficient to move charging unit into Engagement Range of all targets, charge fails.
- If charge successful, models make their charge move.
- Cannot make a charge move within Engagement Range of any unit that was not the target of the charge.
This datasheet has Fast Attack Battlefield Role. Full list of Chaos Daemons units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
Disgustingly Resilient
Daemons of Nurgle are inured to pain, their rotting bodies shrugging off all but the most traumatic damage with ease.
Each time a model with this ability loses a wound, roll a dice; on a 5+, the model does not lose that wound.The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The PLAGUEBEARER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Troops
The PLAGUEBEARER and CAVALRY keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Fast Attack
Plaguesword used in the following datasheets:
Fast Attack
Troops